Inscribed in dark red paint, lower center: "F Sandys. 1860:"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.42
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
people | buildings | river | hills | trees | town | landscape | boats | path | fence | dock
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Whitlingham | Yare | Norfolk | Norwich
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pre-Raphaelite Vision : Truth to Nature (Tate Britain, 2004-01-12 - 2004-05-03)Pre-Raphaelite Vision : Truth to Nature (Alte Nationalgalerie, 2004-06-12 - 2004-09-05)Pre-Raphaelite Vision : Truth to Nature (CaixaForum, Fundacio "la Caixa", 2004-09-28 - 2005-01-09)Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites (Norwich Castle Museum, 2001-10-06 - 2002-01-06)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 196-197, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Whitlingham lies on the south bank of the river Yare in East Anglia, approximately three miles southeast of Frederick Sandys’s hometown of Norwich. The view looks upstream from Whitlingham toward Norwich at dusk. Sandys had been acquainted with the Pre-Raphaelites since 1857, and the elegiac mood in this picture shares affinities with the similarly melancholy paintings by John Everett Millais from the late 1850s, such as his Autumn Leaves (1856) and The Vale of Rest (1858–59), in which the waning daylight functions as a memento mori. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016